FELINE ADOPTION OPTIONS:

If you, or somebody you know wants to adopt, you/they will fill out a regular adoption application at www.souldog.org. Our Adoptions Coordinators can assist you with any adoption questions you may have. That email is adopt@souldog.org. Someone will process any adoption applications that come in for your fosters and send you the applicants’ information once approved as an adopter. 

ADOPTERS CANNOT take our animal into their care until surgery day unless they do a foster to adopt first. ADOPTERS are not allowed to take any of our animals into their care until they have officially adopted the animal. This is very important. 

Many fosters appreciate having some decision-making power when it comes to the animals that they have cared for. We appreciate this and encourage fosters to be involved in the adoption of their animals. 

If you do not wish to engage in the adoption process and prefer to let Soul Dog staff adopt out the animal(s) in your care, let us know. 

You are allowed to post and share your fosters with the world, but we cannot post them on the web site for adoption until they have a surgery date scheduled if they aren’t fixed yet. Our animals are not legally allowed to be adopted until they are fully vetted. 

If the animal isn’t fixed yet, when we have a surgery date scheduled we will list the animal for pre-adoption online. Our Foster Adoptions Coordinator will approve or deny adoption applications that come in. If approved, she will send you the potential adopters’ name and contact info. You will reach out to set up a meet and greet with that person. It’s ok for them to come meet the animal in your home. If you aren't comfortable with that, you can pick a public place or even our shelter. Just let the person communicating with you about the adoption process know.

Just because they come to meet doesn’t mean they WILL be adopting the animal. It’s important the animal likes them, and you do too! We want good forever fits. Feel free to discuss your thoughts with our team of adoption coordinators. If the potential adopter has dogs and/or kids, they must all meet the animal they are interested in before an adoption can proceed. 

Adopter or foster wants to adopt a fully vetted animal: 

The potential adopter needs to fill out an adoption application at www.souldog.org/adopt. Our Adoptions Coordinators will process the application and reach out if she has any questions. Once approved, the adopter will go to our shelter in Fort Lupton to fill out our adoption contract and pay the animals adoption fee. Once the paperwork and fee is done, the adopter is allowed to take the animal into their care.

Unless it’s a special situation, fully vetted animals are not allowed to be foster to adopted. Only animals who aren’t fully vetted yet qualify.

Foster wants to adopt an unfixed animal: 

Fill out a regular adoption application at www.souldog.org/adopt. Our Adoptions Coordinators will process the application and reach out if she has any questions. Once approved, you’ll fill out foster to adopt paperwork, and pay the animals adoption fee. There is a fully refundable $125 surgery deposit fee that will be refunded after surgery. 

Adopter wants to foster until vetted and able to adopt (foster to adopt “FTA”):

The potential adopter needs to fill out an adoption application at www.souldog.org/adopt. Our Adoptions Coordinators will process the application and reach out if they any questions. Once approved, the adopter will go to our shelter in Fort Lupton to fill out foster to adopt paperwork and pay the animals adoption fee. There is a fully refundable $125 surgery deposit fee that will be refunded after surgery. 

The adopter will be treated just like a foster. Adopters will need to bring the animal in for vaccines on time and the spay/neuter appointment. On surgery day, the adopter will finalize the adoption when they go in to pick the animal up from surgery. 

Adopter wants to wait to take the animal until the animal is vetted, then adopt:

The potential adopter needs to fill out an adoption application at www.souldog.org/adopt. Our Adoptions Coordinators will process the application and reach out if she has any questions. Once approved the foster will continue to foster the animal until spay/neuter day. On surgery day, the foster brings the animal in for surgery in the morning. After surgery, in the afternoon, the adopter arrives at the shelter to finalize the adoption and pick the animal up from surgery. 

IMPORTANT! 

• All procedures will be performed at the SDR clinic in Fort Lupton. An FTA under contract who misses a scheduled date for medical services for their potential adoptee, as outlined in their contract, is at risk of having the animal confiscated from the home and will forfeit the $125 surgery deposit. 
• All animals in FTA homes are the expressed property of SDR, until completion of final adoption paperwork. 
• Animals that become injured or wounded in FTA homes must be treated immediately at the expense of the potential adoptee and SDR must be notified.